"Prine's stuff is pure Proustian existentialism," he (Dylan) said.

"And he writes beautiful songs. I remember when Kris Kristofferson first brought him on the scene.

All that stuff about Sam Stone' the soldier junky daddy and Donald and Lydia,' where people make love from ten miles away. Nobody but Prine could write like that."

"It's a vast, enduring treasury, a beacon of light in these ever-weirder times," Plant said when discussing Prine's intricate work, "You know, sometimes it seems like you're writing for all of us, which in fact you probably are."

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"So, once upon a time, it was the first time in my life I was, not what people call clinically depressed,' but a real bummer to be around, like, a real downer to be around," Murray explained.

"And I just couldn't get myself to having any fun and I thought to myself, I remembered something my friend Hunter S. Thompson said during kind of an addled state he said, We're going to have to rely on John Prine for a sense of humour.' Which I thought was one of those addled things that you say."

But Murray followed Thompson's instructions and spun Prine's record, Great Days. A move that would forever change his life.

"I'm thinking to myself, Who the hell put him in charge of a sense of humor,' as I'm going way into this record," Murray said.

"But, there it was, this song Linda Goes To Mars.' And I heard the song and I went, Huh.' And that was the beginning of the return."

much more at the link

A song everyone could use today...

Van Morrison - Down To Joy (Official Video)

Feb 27, 2025
Van Morrison's latest album 'Remembering Now'

This uplifting opening track, originally featured in Kenneth Branagh's acclaimed film Belfast (2021), is now available as a single for the first time.

thread link has the In Spite of Ourselves vid live with Iris DeMent

also:

Grandpa was a carpenter
He built houses stores and banks
Chain smoked camel cigarettes
And hammered nails in planks
He was level on the level
And shaved even every door
And voted for Eisenhower
'cause Lincoln won the war.

thread link has the In Spite of Ourselves vid live with Iris DeMent

also:

Grandpa was a carpenter
He built houses stores and banks
Chain smoked camel cigarettes
And hammered nails in planks
He was level on the level
And shaved even every door
And voted for Eisenhower
'cause Lincoln won the war.

John Prine - "Souvenirs" - Live from Sessions at West 54th